Every Star Wars TV Series: Release Dates, Casting News, Scoop

AHSOKA

WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Ahsoka follows the previous Jedi knight (who made her live-action debut throughout Season 2 of The Mandalorian and subsequently appeared in The Book of Boba Fett)  as she investigates an rising risk to the susceptible New Republic.

WHEN IS IT SET?: During the submit–Return of the Jedi reconstruction period — identical as The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett.

CONFIRMED CAST: Rosario Dawson (as Ahsoka), Natasha Liu Bordizzo (as fan-favorite character Sabine Wren), Eman Esfandi as Ezra Bridger, Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Twi’lek rise up member Hera Syndulla, Lars Mikkelsen (Star Wars Rebels) as Grand Admiral Thrawn, Genevieve O’Reilly (Rogue One, Andor) as Mon Mothma, Ray Stevenson (Black Sails) and Ivanna Sakhno because the Force-sensitive villains Baylan Skolland and Shin Hati, Diana Lee Inosanto because the Thrawn-loyal Morgan Elsbeth, David Tennant (Star Wars: The Clone Wars) voicing the droid Huyang… and a droid named Chopper.

WHO’S DIRECTING?: The line-up of administrators consists of Rebels creator Dave Filoni, Steph Green (Watchmen), Peter Ramsey (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The Mandalorian), Jennifer Getzinger (Westworld, Jessica Jones), Geeta Patel (House of the Dragon) and Rick Famuyiwa (The Mandalorian).

NUMBER OF EPISODES: 8

PREMIERE DATE: Season 1 will premiere in August 2023; watch trailer above.

STAR WARS: SKELETON CREW

WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Hailing from Spider-Man: No Way Home director Jon Watts and Spider-Man: Homecoming author Chris Ford, Skeleton Crew follows the journey of 4 children who make a mysterious discovery on their seemingly protected house planet, then get misplaced in an odd and harmful galaxy. “Finding their way home — and meeting unlikely allies and enemies — will be a greater adventure than they ever imagined,” says the official synopsis. Yet whereas it stars and is about children, Skeleton Crew is “as a lot for teenagers as The Clone Wars,“ exec producer Dave Filoni stated on the 2022 Star Wars Celebration.

WHEN IS IT SET?: During the post-Return of the Jedi reconstruction following the Empire’s demise (identical as The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett and the upcoming Ahsoka sequence).

WHO’S DIRECTING?: Watts, The Daniels (Everything Everywhere All at Once), Bryce Dallas Howard (The Mandalorian), David Lowery (The Green Knight), Jake Scherier (Lodge 49, BEEF) and Lee Isaac Chung (Minari, The Mandalorian) helmed the episodes.

CONFIRMED CAST: Jude Law (The Third Day), Academy Award nominee Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin), Ravi Cabot-Conyers (#BlackAF), Kyriana Kratter (BUNK’D), Tunde Adebimpe (The Girlfriend Experience) and Robert Timothy Smith.

FILMING STATUS: Post-production was underway as of April 2023.

PREMIERE DATE: Sometime in 2023.

THE ACOLYTE

WHEN IS IT SET?: About 100 years previous to Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace.

WHAT IT’S ABOUT: From Russian Doll co-creator Leslye Headland, this mystery-thriller will “take viewers into a galaxy of shadowy secrets and emerging dark-side powers in the final days of the High Republic era,” as a “former Padawan reunites with her Jedi Master to investigate a series of crimes, but the forces they confront are more sinister than they ever anticipated.”

Kelnacca

CONFIRMED CAST: Amandla Stenberg (The Hate U Give) because the aforementioned Padawan, Lee Jung-jae (Squid Game) as a Jedi Master, Joonas Suotamo (Solo: A Star Wars Story) as a Wookiee Jedi named Kelnacca, Rebecca Henderson (Inventing Anna) as Vernestra Rwoh, Manny Jacinto (The Good Place), Margarita Levieva (Revenge), Dafne Keen (His Dark Materials), Jodie Turner-Smith (The Last Ship), Charlie Barnett (Russian Doll), Dean-Charles Chapman (Game of Thrones) and Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix).

FILMING STATUS: Four episodes had been completed as of Star Wars Celebration 2023.

PREMIERE DATE: On monitor for a 2024 launch date.

ANDOR (Season 2)

WHAT IT’S ABOUT: A prequel to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Andor in its first season adopted the titular Cassian (once more performed by Diego Luna) as his homicide (one unintentional, the opposite cold-blooded) of two “corpo” guards led him on a path to fulfill Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård), a key member within the budding Resistance motion. Cassian helped out with the most important heist of an Imperial payroll, however even after escaping wound up imprisoned. Following a jail escape, Cass made his means house to Ferrix, for his mom’s funeral, and managed to elude seize by the numerous factions looking him. As the season got here to an in depth, he joined Luthen on his Fondor craft, prepared to help the Resistance additional.

WHEN IS IT SET?: Season 1 was set 5 years previous to the occasions of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and spanned one 12 months. Season 2 will likely be one other 12 episodes and span the remaining 4 years main as much as Rogue One.

CONFIRMED (OR AT LEAST ASSUMED) CAST: Diego Luna, Stellan Skarsgård, Genevieve O’Reilly (as Mon Mothma), Denise Gough (Dedra) and Kyle Soller (Syril); presumably Forest Whitaker (Saw Gerrera) and Adria Arjona (Bix).

HOW MANY EPISODES: 12

PREMIERE DATE: On monitor for an August 2024 launch date.

THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT (Season 2)

WHAT IT’S ABOUT: In Season 1, which debuted Dec. 29, 2021, the legendary, eponymous bounty hunter (performed by Temuera Morrison) and mercenary Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen) navigated the galaxy’s underworld once they returned to the sands of Tatooine to stake their declare on the territory as soon as dominated by Jabba the Hutt and his crime syndicate.

WHEN IS IT SET: Save for flashbacks/”reminiscences” set shortly after Fett’s seeming demise in Return of the Jedi, a lot of the motion happened throughout the identical timeline as The Mandalorian.

COULD THERE BE A SEASON 2?: There had been zero indicators at Star Wars Celebration 2022, however…. “There’s no official word just yet,” sequence lead Morrison instructed our sister web site Variety after the present’s panel Q&A. “They filmed it like it could just be a nice book and we’ve read the book.”

UPDATE: The ultimate two episodes of The Mandalorian Season 3 is alleged to “resolve” the occasions of Boba Fett Season 1. Also, a function movie directed by Star Wars Rebels creator and The Mandalorian EP Dave Filoni will ship a “culminating event” for The Mandalorian, Boba Fett and the upcoming Ahsoka sequence.

THE MANDALORIAN (Season 4)

WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Given the occasions of The Book of Boba Fett Episode 5 — the place Din Djarin was instructed by the Armorer that he “is a Mandalorian no more,” as a result of he had eliminated his helmet/proven his face to others — and judging by the trailer above, Season 3 of Disney+’s flagship Star Wars sequence will discover Mando, with Grogu in tow, zipping round in his Naboo N-1 starfighter and aiming to reclaim his standing by visiting the “living waters” within the mines below Mandalore. Something which Bo Katan won’t be too eager about!

CONFIRMED SEASON 3 CAST: Pedro Pascal, Katee Sackhoff, Carl Weathers, Emily Swallow, Amy Sedaris and Giancarlo Esposito

PREMIERE DATE: Season 3 premiered on Wednesday, March 1, 2023.

WILL THERE BE A SEASON 4?: Franchise boss Jon Favreau stated in February 2023 that he had already written Season 4 — and that received’t essentially be the tip, both. “I love for these stories to go on and on…,” he instructed Total Film. “I’m looking forward to doing much more.”

LANDO

WHAT IT’S ABOUT: “The galaxy’s favorite scoundrel” is all that was stated when the sequence was introduced to be in early improvement in December 2020. Justin Simien (Dear White People) is creating the “event series.”

WHEN IS IT SET: TBA

CONFIRMED CAST: Donald Glover, who performed a younger Lando Calrissian in 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story, seeeeemed to verify his involvement throughout a March 2022 go to to Jimmy Kimmel Live. “Am I [working on the series]?” he responded to Kimmel’s fishing expedition with an enormous grin. “No, yeah, I have a lot of things [going on]…. I have like a ton of stuff I’ve been working on.”

Then in April 2023, Glover stated (within the video above, on the mark), “We’re talking about it,” earlier than including: “That’s as much as I can say without [Lucasfilm president] Kathleen Kennedy hunting me down.”

RUMORED CAST: Billy Dee Williams, who in fact performed the position in Star Wars Episodes V, VI and IX, and Solo star Alden Ehrenreich.

FILMING STATUS: “You need to ask Donald. He’s the one that holds all the cards here,” Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy instructed CinemaBlend at Star Wars Celebration 2022. “But there’s no movement. I will say that honestly. But it’s not for lack of trying.” Kennedy alluded to Glover’s different commitments, including that Lucasfilm is “patiently waiting.”

PREMIERE DATE: Very a lot TBD

OBI-WAN KENOBI (Season 2)

WHAT IT’S ABOUT: In Obi-Wan Season 1, after spending a decade preserving a low profile on Tatooine whereas covertly checking in on wee Luke Skywalker, the titular former Jedi grasp (performed by the prequel trilogy’s Ewan McGregor) risked publicity/execution with a view to rescue a kidnapped, pint-sized Leia Organa (Waco‘s Vivien Lyra Blair).

WHEN IS IT SET?: Season 1 was set 10 years after the occasions of Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith.

SEASON 1 CAST: McGregor, Blair, Hayden Christensen (as Darth Vader), Moses Ingram (Reva/Third Sister), Joel Edgerton (Owen Lars), Bonnie Piesse (Beru Lars), Kumail Nanjiani (Haja), Indira Varma (Tala), Rupert Friend (Grand Inquisitor), O’Shea Jackson Jr. (TBD), Sung Kang (Fifth Brother), Simone Kessell (Breha Organa) and Benny Safdie (Nari)

COULD THERE BE A SEASON 2?: Nothing has been formally introduced. McGregor has repeatedly stated he’s open to it, whereas chief creatives in addition to Lucasfilm chief Kathleen Kennedy have stated there would should be a compelling purpose/story.

UPDATE: Lucasfilms’ Kennedy instructed Variety in April 2023 that Obi-Wan Season 2 “is not an active development. But I never say never, because there’s always the possibility.”